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Verse of the Day: Peace Through Prayer

by the Web Editors 09-23-2009

Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Prayer of the Day: Poverty

by the Web Editors 09-23-2009
Creator of all people, burn in our hearts the value of the poor, sear our consciences with the reminder that when we look down on the poor, we denigrate their Maker.

Voice of the Day: St. Maria Skobtsova

by the Web Editors 09-23-2009

I am your message, Lord. Throw me like a blazing torch into the night, that all may see and understand what it means to be a disciple.

Voice of the Day: Melba Maggay

by the Web Editors 09-21-2009
You may have an army of bleeding hearts tending the sorrowful and the hungry and yet not see an end to the causes of hunger and thirst.

Prayer of the Day: Neighbors

by the Web Editors 09-21-2009
God who seeks the reconciliation of all people, we pray for our neighbors, for those who live around us.

Verse of the Day: 'You shall not oppress'

by the Web Editors 09-21-2009
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

- Exodus 23:9

Verse of the Day: God's Steadfast Love

by the Web Editors 09-14-2009
Deep calls to deep

at the thunder of your cataracts;

all your waves and your billows

have gone over me.

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

Prayer of the Day: Afghanistan

by the Web Editors 09-14-2009
Prince of Peace, we lift up our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan.

Voice of the Day: Julian of Norwich

by the Web Editors 09-14-2009

As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother. Our Father wills, our Mother works, our good Lord the Holy Spirit confirms.

Verse of the Day:

by the Web Editors 09-10-2009

Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

Voice of the Day: Dorothy Day

by the Web Editors 09-10-2009
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom

that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.


Prayer of the Day: Those on Death Row

by the Web Editors 09-10-2009
Life-giving God, we pray for all those to be executed around the world, particularly those on death row in the U.S., so many of whom are poor.

Voice of the Day: St. Marcella

by the Web Editors 09-09-2009
By heaven’s grace, captivity has found me a poor woman, not made me one. Now I shall go in want of daily bread, but I shall not feel hunger, since I am full of Christ.

Prayer of the Day: Students

by the Web Editors 09-09-2009
We pray, Jesus our teacher, that you care for all young students returning to schools. We pray especially for those who receive free or reduced meals at school.

Verse of the Day: 'people loved darkness rather than light'

by the Web Editors 09-09-2009
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

Verse of the Day: 'the upright are an abomination to the wicked'

by the Web Editors 09-08-2009
The unjust are an abomination to the righteous,

but the upright are an abomination to the wicked.

- Proverbs 29:27

Voice of the Day: St. Jeanne de Chantal

by the Web Editors 09-08-2009

Sometimes put yourself very simply before God, certain of his presence everywhere, and without any effort, whisper very softly to his sacred heart whatever your own heart prompts you to say.

Prayer of the Day: The Earth

by the Web Editors 09-08-2009
Let us pray for an end to the waste and desecration of God’s creation, for access to the fruits of creation to be shared equally among all people, and for communities and nations to find sus

Verse of the Day: 'Hear the rebuke of the wise'

by the Web Editors 09-07-2009
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

- Ecclesiastes 7:5

Voice of the Day: St. Katherine Drexel

by the Web Editors 09-07-2009

Resolve: Generously and with no half-hearted, timorous dread of the opinions of Church and men to manifest my mission....